Joos de Momper - vendere e comprare opere
1564, Antwerp (Belgium) - 5 February 1635, Antwerp (Belgium)
Joos de Momper is one of the most noteworthy Flemish landscape painters of the 16th-17th centuries.
Joos de Momper was born 1564 in Antwerp, the son of the painter, art collector and art dealer Bartholomew de Momper. He was accepted into the Guild of Saint Luke as early as 1581, during a period in which his father was chairman. He married Elisabeth Gobyn in 1590, and shortly afterwards was appointed the first dean of the Guild of Saint Luke.
He remains widely acclaimed on the international stage for his proto-romantic paintings of mountains and lake landscapes. His style is bold and somewhat mannerist. Unlike his contemporary and fellow student Jan Brueghel, who was known for his delicate and sensitive art, de Momper is therefore considered audacious and bizarre. The artist was prone to using the Flemish colouration method in his works, a technique applied to landscape painting in which the shades of the image follow the passage of the sun through the atmosphere. Accordingly, his works almost always feature a preponderance of warm colours in the foreground and cold hues in the background.
In the history of Dutch art, his paintings mark the transition point between the global landscapes of the mannerists and the naturalist landscape painting of the 17th century. To this day, visitors can see numerous works by the master in the major art establishments like the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, the Old Masters Gallery in Dresden and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. His most famous pieces include paintings like Mountain Landscape, Winter Landscape, Alpine Landscape and The Tower of Babel.
On 19 April 2016, a Mountain Landscape with Travellers on a Path by Joos de Momper in cooperation with Jan Brueghel I. sold for €222,600.